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Mediterraneans : North Africa and Europe in an age of migration, c. 1800-1900 /
Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, offers the fullest picture to date of the Mediterranean...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Arrival: Tunis the "well-protected"
- Detours: migrations in a mobile world
- Making a living: domestic service and other forms of employment
- Making a living: petty commerce, places of sociability, and the down-and-out
- Making a living: the sea, contraband, and other illicit activities
- From protection to protectorate: justice, order, and legal pluralism
- Muslim princes and trans-Mediterranean missionaries
- Where elites meet: households, harim visits, and sea bathing
- Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi and a Mediterranean community of thought